The problem is not the size of Intercity cars its the commuter service is running within the intercity part!
This applied for both the morning service from Drogheda and the afternoon service to Maynooth.
The key concept of intercity services is meant to be comfort you are meant to have a seat as it is a long distance journey. If the Rosslare service starts from Drogheda and arrives at connolly packed to the rafters then the intercity traveller has to stand for a period.
The new intercity railcars are designed for passenger comfort ie more seats its not designed for packed commuter services so the process of seperation between drogheda/maynooth from rosslare services is being planned and when this happens rosslare services should start from connolly! The intercity railcars are not suited to sardines-in-a-tin like services.
On a aside I think too many drogheda/dundalk services terminate in bray if one of the earlier services terminated in connolly, ran back to skerries or balbriggan to alleviate the pax boarding there it might help the overcrowding situation and might get an extra service over the loopline, maybe a DART!
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